Over the years, Dixie, the BVS (the Boston Vegetarian Society) has had a number of events - some from my days leading it, and others after I left, including: -

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, Feb 17, 2013

Over the years, Dixie, the BVS (the Boston Vegetarian Society) has had a number of events - some from my days leading it, and others after I left, including:

The Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (which I started outside BVS, through the Vegetarian Resource Center)

New Year's Day Dinner and Party (it grew into a family-oriented get-together with games

Walk-around of the local sites for vegetarian-based religions - ISKCON, SDAs, Hindus, Jains, etc. - they hosted the 'religious study group' that was (ostensibly) 'looking for a religion' - with a vegetarian meal and a PITCH on why vegetarians OUGHT to look at them (and why looking to them for a 'spiritual home' for vegetarians was superior to those vegetarians finding a spiritual home elsewhere) - very interesting. Sparsely attended.

I have repeatedly discovered what BVS President and Executive Director Evelyn Kimber discovered was a limiting factor for involvement: many (most) folks do NOT want to do any effort (including preparing potluck foods, doing readings, etc.). A generation reared on TV and the movies wants to be given everything during the event, predigested for palatability, "enhanced" (like the President's SOTU online now) with PowerPoints and an outline, and lots of getting to know you events with people new attendees find attractive (and "promising").